Clarion 1967-02-09 Vol 41 No 14

The Women's Choir arrived back on campus Tuesray evening. They left the campus on January 26,
singing their concert 17 times in 13 days, on their Midwest Tour.
Volume XLI—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, February 9, 1967
Professor C. Howard Smith is presently with the Chorus in Nashville, Tennessee. The tour which
began on January 26 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin will conclude in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on February 12.
Camelot To Host Sno-Daze Dinner;
Busy Athletic Slate Marks Weekend
Touring Women's Group
Performs In Seven States
The 42 voice Women's Choir, one
of Bethel's three traditional vocal
groups, is currently engaged in a
13 day tour of the Midwest. The
group conducted by Oliver Mogck,
left the college campus on Janu-ary
26 to travel in 7 states from
Pennsylvania to Minnesota. During
the two week period, the choir
plans to present its concert a total
of 17 times.
Works performed by the choir
include numbers by such famous
composers as J. S. Bach, Beethoven,
Hassler, and Mascagni. Mere con-temporary
musicians such as Noble
Cain, David Johnson and L. Stan-ley
Clarum are also being featured.
This season's major work of the
choir will be Beethoven's "Halle-lujah
Chorus" from his oratorio,
"The Mount of Olives." The con-cert
repertoire includes other great
spiritual classics, hymn arrange-ments,
and spirituals.
Assistant conductor this year is
Cheryl Henry, who hails from Cres-ton,
Iowa. At the keyboard in an
accompanying capacity will be
Norene Shephard from Crystal,
North Dakota. Also serving in a
similar capacity will be Janice
Fjeldeim, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Representing college interests to
the listening audiences, Miss Cath-erine
Williams, Dean of Women, is
travelling with the choir as a fac-ulty
advisor.
An on tour report from Sue
Howard indicated that highlights
of the tour were a tour of the
Ford Plant in Dearborn, Michi-gan,
a visit to the Radio Bible
Class in Grand Rapids, and a
TV appearance in Erie, Pennsyl-vania
which was followed by a
tour of the city's port facilities
and historic sights.
The tour ended in Red Wing
on Tuesday night, when the girls
zeroed in on the campus for a
return to studies and the cold.
Male Chorus Tours South
Presenting Sacred Music
by C. David Snyder
While Bethel College students
are returning from all parts of
the country to resume second sem-ester
classes in sub-zero tempera-tures,
38 of her members, the
Bethel Male Chorus, are privileged
to enjoy the warmth and comfort
of the climate of the deep south.
Every year each of the choral
groups presents a season of sacred
concerts in a particular section of
the country. It is presently the
honor of the Chorus to "invade"
a part of the country little-touched
by the Bethel influence.
After their departure by char-tered
Greyhound from the Col-lege
parking lot on Thursday of
finals week, the men have made
their way, step by step, to the
deep south, where, as of this
writing, they are about to pre-sent
a concert at their southern-most
point, Miami, Florida.
A matter of concern to any
director is a large turnover in per-sonnel
from one year to the next,
Such was the case with Male Chor-us
director, C. Howard Smith.
With only a dozen veterans return-ing
from the group which toured
Europe for six weeks during the
summer of '65, Mr. Smith was
faced with an obvious task of re-building.
After long and exhausting hard
work, disappointment, and succes-ses,
the Chorus is now experienc-ing
a strong feeling of oneness —
oneness in musical sound, in per-sonality,
and in Christian love.
Accompanying the Chorus a-gain
is junior, Dennis Rockford.
Also providing instrumental var-iety
are trombonists Ken Smith,
Cal Parent, and Dean Finnestad,
along with trumpeters Dave Sim-mons,
Rich Swanson, Tom Blom-strand,
and Bruce Dischinger.
Soloing is Dan Wickman, Presi-dent
of the group.
Traveling with the group again
is Head of the Department of His-tory,
Dr. Roy Dalton. But Doc is
more than this to the fellows of the
Chorus. To us he is our mascot,
our seamstress, our constant object
of practical joking, our Christian
friend and helper.
The repertoire presented by the
Chorus this year is one of "new
joy" found in serving Jesus Christ.
It is one of acknowledging that
the Lord is King; that He alone
is the controller of our lives, and
of the world.
Cry out, and shout!
Ye people of God!
The Lord is strength
and song.
Therefore shall ye draw waters
from the wells of salvation:
Cry out and shout!
Ye people of God!
Make a joyful sound unto the
Lord, all ye lands!
And serve the Lord with
gladness . . .
It is He that hath made us,
and not we ourselves;
For we are His people, and
the sheep of His pasture.
Make a joyful sound,
make a joyful sound!
These are the words of two
numbers which mean much to the
men of the Chorus. Although per-forming
the same concert night
after night, there are variances
within the churches and within
the men, which create a new at-mosphere
in each setting.
Few problems have been en-countered
during the tour thus
far, with the exception of dif-ficulty
in getting through t h e
Chicago area on the way south.
The concert scheduled for Mt.
Prospect on Friday night was
forcibly canceled by the heavy
snowfall and blizzard conditions.
Refuge and housing was pro-vided
for the entire group by
Temple Baptist, the Conference
Church in Rockford, with only
a few hours notice.
The Chorus hopes to arrive in
St. Paul at 2:30 a.m., next Monday,
providing no further complications
present themselves. They will give
their homecoming concert at Beth-lehem
Baptist in Minneapolis on
Feb. 19.
ATTENTION
Due to the limited seat-ing
capacity of the Bethel
Fieldhouse the Norman
Luboff Concert has been
moved to the Norton
Fieldhouse at Hamline
University. The concert
will be held at the same
time, 8:00 P.M. on March
10th. Group transporta-tion
will be provided for
on-campus ticket holders
who have no private cars.
Refunds for cancellations
will be available at the
ticket windows during
Founders Week.
Sno-daze, highlight of Bethel's
winter social calendar will com-mence
on Friday night, February
17 at 7:45. The scene will be the
now famous Minneapolis restau-rant,
the Camelot. This restaurant
is well known for its exquisite Old .
English decor, carried through by
a motif drawn from the legends
of King Arthur and his Knights.
The Camelot will host the cor-onation
of the Sno-Daze queen
and her court. Dress for the oc-casion
will be formal for women,
suits and ties for men.
Chicken in burgundy, french,
pastries will be highlights of the
menu. Vocal and instrumental din-ner
music has been planned.
Sno-Daze activities for Saturday
include three athletic events, din-ner,
and an aftergame social. The
Bethel Royals will face the River
Falls puckmen in a duel at Wakota
arena. Busses have been secured
for those needing a ride. This 4:30
event will be followed at 6:30 by
a wretling meet asgainst Morris
and a basketball game against the
same school.
The halftime show for t h e
game will include an appearance
by the queen and her court for
her official introduction to the
students. Her majesty will pre-side
over and knight the winner
of the beard growing contest.
The basketball game will be fol-lowed
by a light hour of refresh-ment
in an atmosphere of candle
light and folk music in Room 106.
Earlier in the day, the winners
of the snow sculpture contest
will receive a trophy which it
is hoped will begin a precedent
for future Sno-Daze.
The Saturday evening dinner will
follow the theme of the Old Eug-lish
motif. This occasion will be
semi-formal.
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the CLARION Thursday, February 9, 1967
intersession' Essential To
Bethel Calendar Reform
The European influence on American college calendars
is becoming more and more pronounced every year. Prime
feature of this influence has been the "intersession", variously
known as the minisemester, reading interlude, and inter-semester.
This one month unit which falls between the second and
third quarters of the school year is tailored to encourage
student initiative in broadening their interests. It provides
an opportunity for students to take courses they would not
ordinarily have taken. (Grades are banished from this ses-sion;
students are usually given a pass fail mark which is
not included in the transcript)
Students generally select one course which meets three
times weekly, allowing for a maximum time for outside
reading.
Often, such programs include field trips of various kinds.
In the latest intersession at MacAlester, students went as far
away as Europe to study Rennaissance art, to the Harlem
slums to work with the Protestant Parish, to work with a
congressman in Washington, to Florida for a study of marine
biology, to Mexico for Spanish, as well as to a host of other
places. Such a program at Bethel would provide:
1) a break from the dull prospect of a semester's work
clouded by dour skies in the dead of winter.
2) an opportunity for students to broaden their academic
interests; to explore fields of study they would not normally
have pursued.
3) a solution to the long standing feud over the departure
of touring groups during academic sessions.
4) an opening for professors to teach courses in which they
have a special interest; to plan courses of integrated studies
(see last issue's editorial).
5) an opportunity to study courses not framed within the
college curriculum.
6) a chance to prepare for work anticipated in the coming
quarter.
7) an opportunity for both teachers and students to assess
academic progress made by the individual students (grades
,would be distributed after each quarter).
8) a nautural break for Christmas vacation long the
haunting spectre of the semester calendar.
Such a program is naturally based upon the integrity of
the individual students, and as such it is vulnerable to abuse.
But the benefit it would afford the serious students would far
outweigh its abue at the hands of the pseudo-students.
In accord with the plans for the "new look" Bethel will
have on the Arden Hills campus, it is time we began to recog-nise
some of the new and exciting innovations in college cal-endars.
ChapelChanges
For This Month
The following changes have
been made in the February
Chapel schedule:
Feb. 9. — Thurs. convocation
featuring Donn Od-ell,
previously sche-duled
for Jan. 17th.
Feb 15.— Wednesday — D r .
William Hulme, pro-fessor
at Luther
Seminary on "Sex
and the Christian."
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Letters to the Editor:
Dean's Note Disappoints, Insults, Shocks
by Leonard Sammons
Chicago
Record snow is proving too much
for antiquated Chicago snow re-moval
crews. The forced abandon-ment
of cars has led to abundant
vandalism forcing police arrests.
It is to be hoped that the police
informed the alleged vandals of
their constitutional rights so that
if they are convicted they can pay
their fines and/or go to t h e
klink. It is still doubtful that Sno-
Daze will he moved to the Windy
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California
While cold, wet snow falls on
Chicago, students at the Univer-sity
of California's nine campus-es
are still fuming over the dis-missal
of Dr. Clark Kerr as Uni-versity
president. The dismissal
they feel was caused by personal
and political differences between
Kerr and the new, ultraconser-vative
governor Ronald Reagan
of Hollywood.
Even the campus Communists
who were once opponents of Kerr
have given him their support, but
it is the old story of too little
and too late.
Washington and Phoenix
It has been hinted that Secretary
of the Interior Udall is considering
running for the United States Sen-ate
from Arizona in 1968. The seat
is presently held by the nonogen-erian
President pro tempore of the
Senate, Carl Hayden, whose office
announced some time back that he
would seek an eighth term.
Also anticipating candidacy is
a former clerk of Goldwater's
store in Phoenix, who presently
is a ham radio operator, a man
who ought to be a recording star
and sing "I Left MY Votes in
San Francisco."
Washington and Saigon
When former-clerk Barry Gold-water
was runing for President un-der
the Republican label, he said
he could do away with the draft.
Well, he lost, and the draft lingers,
partially because of fighting in
Viet Nam.
While the war continued, the
President, Landslides Lyndon John-son,
said he knew of no serious at-tempt
of Hanoi to negotiate a set-tlement.
And Goldwater, who want-ted
to abolish the draft, is taking a
much more hawk (I think he con-fuses
it with an eagle)-like ap-proach
than Johnson.
Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek is reportedly
more optimistic of the chances
of reconquering the Chinese
mainland since internal conflict
began in the Red-controlled
mainland. However, he has an
army of less than a million which
is hardly enough to invade a ter-ritory
which contains 700 mil-lion
people.
Louisville, Bimini, and Washington
Cassius Clay, alias Muhammed
Ali, while preparing to challenge
Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight
boxing title, spent time arguing to
his draft board that he is a Black
Muslim minister and only a boxer
part-time.
A fellow clergy man who actu-ally
has a church, but spends most
To the Editor,
The loss of respect for those in
authority is regretable. We are
deeply disappointed to find that
such is the case at Bethel in view
of the recent letter addressed to
off campus students by the Deans'
Office. May wt quote the Bethel
College Catalogue 1966-67, p. 34
and p. 8?
"The spirit of the school is to
work with a minimum of rules and
thus avoid a legalistic approach to
Christian living."
"The college attempts to provide
an intellectual, social, and spiritual
community in which individuals
can grow and learn in a variety of
situations, are encouraged to as-sume
responsibility intelligently,
and may develop a discriminating
awareness of and concern for
Christian motives."
We believe that the majority of
Bethel students (especially those
who have assumed the responsi-bility
of off campus living) are
capable of living up to the highest
expectations of the school. In the
dorms there are lounges. Off cam-pus
there is now nothing but —
cars?
We agree that it is not advisable
to entertain one of the opposite
sex in "the more intimate and pri-vate
atmosphere of one's personal
living quarters," However, may we
not compare our living rooms to
the dorm lounges?
May we remind you that a get
together in the supposedly "inti-mate
and private atmosphere" of
one's living room may be the oc-casion
for group Bible studies and
discussions rather than "an event
to be interpreted in the worst pos-sible
light." The lack of trust in
the imposition of petty rules is an
insult to our Christian principles.
May we sigh ourselves,
Bethel Students
of his time far away from it, Adam
Clayton Powell, has recorded an
album entitled "Keep The Faith,
Baby." His House colleagues, how-.
ever, have still not seated him.
To the Editor:
I write in reply to the letter
from the Dean's office issued to
off-campus residents just prior to
final week.
As to the scriptural quote of
"abstain from all apearance of
evil," I would also like to quote,
"Unto the pure all things are
pure." My university neighbors do
not think twice when a person of
the opposite sex walks into my
apartment nor do I think anything
of them in a similar situation. To
those Bethel personnel who think
otherwise, I suggest that their
minds need cleaning up.
Furthermore, it seems to me
that my apartment is my home
and I am not going to be so ab-normal
or outright rude as to
ask my date to wait in the hall.
Nor do I feel that my hospitality
of extending a dinner invitation to
the opposite sex need be condi-tioned
by "notifying the Dean" or
a note from my mother! Must I
then also consult Mrs. Johnson,
dietitian, as to what I should
serve?
As for "lighting a fuse," I am
sure a lot more are conveyed with-in
cars rather than apartments.
And I am not speaking about jump-er
cables!
May I finally add that I was
thoroughly insulted by a letter
of this nature. My relationships
with other people, including the
opposite sex, are built on trust
and respectability and I hope
that this is a reciprocal stan-dard.
And in reply to the idea that "no
student should engage in any type
of behavior which would seem to
require explanation," I would like
to say that I expect to spend the
rest of my life giving explanations
for my actions, for if I have no
reasons for what I do then I am
among Bethelites most miserable.
It seems to me that in the final
analysis someone has been talking
to Bob Jones . . . but I think they
got a wrong number!
Insulted Student
P.S. "Boys and girls" seem to be
rather immature terms for the type
of actions to which this letter re-fers.
Dear Editor:
I was shocked and disappointed
when I learned of the clarification
of Bethel's position regarding
males in apartments. I protest on
three counts.
1. This position serves to assert.
that Bethel men and women are
incapable of living according to
their own consciences. It seems to
imply that in order for a Christian
to maintain his morality, he must
be supplied with an alter ego. In
this case that alter ego is a system
which establishes an all inclusive
rule.
2. All of us have been discour-aged
at the number of marriage
failures that occur in our so-ciety.
Sociologists attribute part
of this to role discontinuity. The
dating pattern which this rule
necessitates does nothing to al-leviate
this problem.
A couple that is courting should
have every possible opportunity to
try on marriage roles. (I am not
advocating sexual license. A man
should see his girl making supper.
He should eat her food and he
should be able to see her with her
hands in the dish water—and it
would certainly do no harm for her
to see how he looked with a towel
in his hands.
There is certainly no time like
courtship to find out that Joe is
impecable and dogmatic about the
appearance of the house. During
courtship these problems can be
dealt with gradually and with re-latively
little tension. The result
is removing them as problems to
be handled during the first few
months of marriage.
The more experiences a court.
ing couple has together, the
more chances of success their
marriage has. By making this
rule Bethel has greatly reduced
the number of preparatory ex-periences
a couple can have.
3. If a couple wants to neck, etc.
—they will do it with or without
the rule. Is a parked car so much
superior to an apartment?
Marie Weigum
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Student Services has announced
that a number of interviewers will
be on campus for those who are
looking for employment and fur-ther
training.
The Pleasant Valley School Dis-trict
of Camarillo, California, will
be sending a representative to
Bethel on February 9 for any in-terested
senior education majors.
Inquiries will be entertained be-tween
1:00 and 4:30 P.M. in Mrs.
Hardle's Office.
A letter from the District Super-intendent
indicates that there will
be vacancies for 18-20 elementary
teachers in that school district.
The letter notes that three Bethel
alumni are successfully working
on their first teaching assignments
in this area; they are Andrea
Richardson, Janet Skur, and Bob
Peterson.
Also on February 9, Thursday,
Air Firce recruiters will be in
Dear Mr. Editor,
I'm sure that you noticed it as
well as 1 did. Wasn't it interesting
how a noticeably coherent atmo-sphere
pervaded the campus last
week during finals. Wasn't it great
to notice that common bond of
testing and trial which united the
campus.
Everyone was "booking it" for
all they were worth, and they
knew that they were not alone in
their concern. The whole campus
was one big study hall. Every cor-ner
found students attempting to
absorb as much as they could in
as short a time as possible.
Friends were seen in the
strangest places — like the li-brary.
Rooms were shared with
perfect strangers who, like us,
were looking for that "quiet
place to study." It seemed that
everyone really did care when
they would ask, "Well, how's it
going?"
We rejoiced with those w h o
found that they had learned the
"right" things, and we had a real
sympathy for those who had been
weighed in the balances and found
wanting. After all — we knew just
how they felt.
Perhaps this experience has
caused you to have the same
thoughts I had. Wouldn't it be
great if we were concerned for
each other's spiritual examina-tions?
Wouldn't it be great if we
could find those who were con-cerned
enough about us to ask,
"How is it going with your prayer
life?" or "Have you discovered new
and exciting insights into the
Christian life this past week?"
It probably sounds "out of it"
to ask a friend how his spiritual
tests are going, but after all,
isn't that more important than
Chemistry and History and So-cial
Problems etc? Of course, we
aren't all tested "spiritually at
the same time — or are we?
Maybe each day is like a test
for every human — a test to see
what are our concerns and where
are our efforts. Any way, it seems
that Christians should receive spe-cial
motivation to be concerned
for others from God's Holy Word.
Maybe we've been using our
"shield of faith" to hide behind.
Isn't that shield part of a set of
armor designed to offensively meet
the temptation of the anti-God.
Yet we're using it to protect our-selves
and excuse ourselves from
Thursday, February 9, 1967
confronting our fellow Christians
in an honest way.
Man's spiritual condition in-volves
a relationship between the
man and God alone, we say. But
the same idea holds true in our
educational efforts. That test grade
comes from a student-teacher corn-munication
and help from other
sources invalidates the grade it-self.
We didn't waste time telling
our friends what to study for
their finals. The ACTIONS we
Rev. Dan Baumann, Instructor in
Pastoral Ministries at Bethel Sem-inary
is conducting a tour of Eu-rope
this summer. The tour, "Pro-testant
Highlights of Europe", has
scheduled a 3 week route through
England, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, and France.
Areas of special interest will be
exploration of places prominent in
the life of Luther, archeological
remnants left by the early Chris-tians
in Rome, as well as frequent
visits to places of Protestant wor-ship
on the Continent.
Scenic beauty along the way will
include a boat cruise up the Rhine
river, extensive travelling in the
Alps, particularly in Switzerland,
as well as Paris, the "City of
Lights".
The tour is being sponsored by
Gotaas World Travel, with head
offices in Chicago. Rev. Baumann's
trip is the second such tour in a
series of two slated for the sum-mer
months. July 11 to August 1
are the current dates
A unique aspect of the tour
is the extensive time given to
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did take were those of concern
and a desire to share our com-mon
interests.
Couldn't we transfer those ac-tions
to the essential realm of
spiritual efforts? Let's ask a fel-low
Christian today how much
trouble he's having with Bible read-in
or let's tell a friend how we
can't understand how our prayers
do anybody any good. That might
be a very basic part of our "rea-sonable
service."
those who wish to do some solo
ventures.
The price tag for the tour
which includes round trip air fare,
full hotel accommodations, most
meals, full sighseeing program,
English speaking guides, and other
extras, has been set at $799.00.
Students wishing more informa-tion
on this are invited to contact
Dan Baumann at the Seminary.
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Art Work Prize
The editorial board of the 'CO- •
EVAL' announces that it will be
offering two prizes of $25.00 each
in the categories of writing and
art, for contributions (poetry,
prose, short drama, etc.) may be
submitted to Dave Shupe, Norma
Wiese, Jon P. Larson, Esther Pear-son,
Mr. Rolland Hein, or Nan-cy
Applequist, by March 15. Art-work
will be photographed for
entry on or about the same date;
notify Nancy Applequist (P.O.
1075) if you intend to submit art-work.
All entries in either category
will be considered for the prizes.
Faculty in the departments of Eng-lish
and Art will judge the entries.
Our thanks to the many who have
already contributed; please con-tinue
to do so.
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All Computer Dreamland
by Dr. Roy Butler
Ed. note—Dr. Butler is the Chairman of the Philosophy Department
at Bethel College.
Computer replacement of college professors is a well-worn conver-sation
piece, but the question of student replacement is more interest-ing.
I suppose every professor, periodically leafing his notes on a
well-turned pun, which falls stillborn from his lips, momentarily
anticipates the golden age of student computers. Well adjusted com-puters
have a satisfying way of digesting last week's notes and re-sponding
appropriately.
From one perspective, the college population explosion perspective,
computer student replacement is idle dreaming. But from another, the
neat processing of facts and figures "man the machine view" of
learning, computer replacement of students is an updated "1984," a
predictable emergence.
Computers are ideal memorizers; what goes in one week as raw
data comes out as pun equivalents and functionally valid equations
the next. And what the heights of pedagogical success for the college
professor and a class of well adjusted computers! He might well rule
the world in one cool semester, and withall scorn the thought of
professor replacement — computers must ever be instructed.
Perhaps what brings the professor and his pun back to reality,
however, is the dubious motivational worth of computer response,
perfect though it be, to further punning. To chuckle alone, year after
year, among "blooded" students is, psychologically at least, more ad-missible
than chuckling with a class of well computed chuckles.
Probably it is on this note that the dream of student computers
erodes away entirely. Students somehow enequivocally are less than
mathematically ordered things — and infinitely more. It is the "in-finitely
more" which the professor, having confessed his pun episode
to his "significant other" (his wife), recognizes as somehow the essence
of knowledge-giving and getting. Man the chuckler (homo ludens) alone,
candidate for the B.A., constitutes a challenge to man the professor.
The arts of chuckling and guffawing have been exposed from
numerous viewpoints. The master of the incongrous, the double-levelled
creature is infinitely more than the machine; he is an evalu-ator.
It is the "blooded" student's capacity to engage the world of
gods and men and things with his full quiver of value judgments —
goods-bads, beauties-uglier, holies-sinfuls — that is the student's ir-replaceable
commodity.
He has been made a "little lower than the angels" and learning
and knowing are weighted toward goals. (Man, the learner and laugher,
has his feet on earth and his head in the clouds.) Knowledge is for
worship (worthship) and man, the student, stands, as image-bearer of
the infinite, infinitely above the world of computers. Only at well-marked
times of testing puns does man, the professor, question man,
the student.
Opportunities To Knock
Says Placement Office
the Coffee Shoppe lounge from
9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
The Moser Secretarial School
will send an interviewer to the
campus on Wednesday, March 1
who will be available for inter-views
at 1:00 P.M. in the Student
Services office.
The Moser School caters to wo-men
anticipating careers in busi-ness.
Applicants for admission
must have either two years of lib-eral'
arts, or 60 credit hours as a
prerequisite for admission.
644-4093 EYES EXAMINED
N. M. Klaers, O.D.
OPTOMETRIST
1673 Arona St.
Arona Near Larpenteur St. Paul, Minn.
Letter to the Editor:
Spiritual Life Needs Genuine Interest
Protestant Highlights Of Europe
To Be Subject Of Baumann Tour
Page 4 the CLARION
Bethel's freshmen dominated
wrestling team took it on the chin
five more times over semester
break, bowing to Concordia, Mor-ris,
Pillsbury, and twice to North-land.
Bright spot for the Royals was
frosh grappler Bob Olsen. The 167
pound product of Davenport, Iowa.
continued his fine wrestling with
a perfect 5-0 semester break re-cord,
running his season record
to an unblemished 13-0.
Injuries have plagued the mat-men
all season, and have side-lined
key veterans. Presently the
team is without a single return-ing
letterman. The grapplers
have consequently been forced
to use inexperienced men and
usually have been unable to field
a full team.
Concordia, Morris, and Pillsbury
easily took the measure of the
shorthanded wrestlers, but the
young Royals twice gave Northland
a tough battle before suffering
identical 23-18 setbacks.
In their first encounter Bethel
opened up an 8-0 lead on a deci-sion
by Dan Versaw and Steve
Anderson's pin. A flurry of North-land
victories pulled the visitors
ahead 18-8 before Olsen put the
Royals back on the winning track
by pinning his opponent.
Bethel evened the score at 18
Enjoy the world's fast-est
and most exciting
game
HOCKEY
Bethel Royals vs.
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activity)
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all when John Griffith's antagon- at Northland, three Bethel forfiets
ist was disqualified for using an spotted the Lumberjacks 15 points
illegal hold four times. Bethel's
before the first grappler stepped
forfiet at heavyweight, however, on the mat. The Royals 18-8 edge
gave Northland their 23-18 vic. i n actual competition wasn't
tory. enough to overcome that early de-
In a return match a week later ficit.
Bethel's grapplers faced a rough and tumble season. John Grif-fiths
is pressured by an unidentified Northland wrestler.
Faculty(Ahem0A11-Stars
Favored Over Magics
An exhibition of comedy basket- arenas and stadiums throughout
ball featuring the world-famous the nation. Jan. 15 they appeared
Fabulous Magicians led by drib- on the wide-world of sports, show-bling
artist Marques Haynes will ing off their ability to shoot from
meet a Bethel College Faculty the hip, fire from any spot on
All-Star team Saturday (Feb. 11) the floor, and handle the ball like
evening at 8 o'clock in the Bethel a knife and fork.
fieldhouse, W. Nebraska at As- The Magicians have pleased aud-bury
in St. Paul. iences in 47 states and on three
The Magicians, under the fan- continents. Competent observers
tastic hand of owner Marques believe that the Haynes owned Ma-
Haynes, considered by most com- gicians can probably move the ball
petent observers to be the finest into scoring position with more
dribbler and ball handler in the skill and deft maneuvering than
history of professional basketball, any team in the roundball world.
will pack 40 minutes of consum- Bethel Athletic director Gene
mate court skill into a comedy Glader, who along with football
and crowd-pleasing routine against coach Maurice Shields, basket-the
All-Stars to demonstrate bas- ball coach Mack Nettleton, and
ketball at its entertaining best. other faculty members will play
T h e Magicians feature such
for the All-Stars, said, "We an-stars
as Sugarfoot Johnson, Mu. ticipate a great evening. We're
sic Scott, Walt Cummins, Jimmy using the best of our faculty and
Roberts, Ish Baker, Paul Martin, staff."
Tommy Gipson, and others. General admission for this event
Strictly amazing, the Magicians is $1.25 in advance and student
with over 3,00 victories against prices are 75 ,0. At the gate prices
only nine losses, play in the major are $1.50 and $1 respectively.
by Lynn Bergfalk
Losing seasons are never pleasant. When the teams have
the potential to make a much better showing, losing is even
more distasteful. Why? becomes a disturbing question. Such
a question has no simple answer; a multitude of factors are
involved. And out of these many factors, one thing in par-ticular
emerges as a basic need to athletic success — mem-bership
status in an athletic conference.
Participation in a conference yields many benefits and
abieviates numerous headaches. To begin with, athletic con-tests
would receive more publicity through the normal news
media. The benefits from this increased publicity are hardly
limited to the scope of athletics alone.
Furthermore, conference membership spawns two forces
vital to formation of a winning team. The first concerns
personnel. Recruiting becomes more effective resulting in
more good athletes.
The increased publicity mentioned previously, and the
opportunity for the prospective athlete to participate in con-ference
competition are two attractions that Bethel, as an in-dependent
(the only one in Minnesota this year), can not
offer in the way of recruiting inducements.
A second factor instrumental to success is the motiva-tional
force initiated by conference membership. Especially
when a team is high in the conference standings, desire for
championship laurels will spark them to top-notch efforts in
every game. In a season like the one the Royals are now
experiencing, motivation would still be important for a con-ference
team in attempting to evade the cellar and save face.
A list of advantages could run on forever. Attendance
would rise, particularly if Bethel joined a conference that
featured natural rivals like Hamline, Macalester, or other
schools in the Twin City area. Travel expenses and time
would be greatly reduced as excursions to neighboring states
were replaced by conference games. Furthermore, confer-ence
games would do more for the annual scheduling head-ache
than Excedrin.
Still a conference entails more than the above advantages.
In final analysis, such an organization is ultimately essential
in enabling athletics to make their most meaningful contri-bution
to the liberal arts experience.
Steps are being taken by the athletic department towards
assimilation by an existing conference. Let us hope that for-mal
application is made before losing seasons become a tradi-tion.
A losing tradition has little appeal to fans, athletes, and
future prospects. It would also draw little publicity — none
of it favorable.
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The Women's Choir arrived back on campus Tuesray evening. They left the campus on January 26,
singing their concert 17 times in 13 days, on their Midwest Tour.
Volume XLI—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, February 9, 1967
Professor C. Howard Smith is presently with the Chorus in Nashville, Tennessee. The tour which
began on January 26 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin will conclude in Cedar Falls, Iowa, on February 12.
Camelot To Host Sno-Daze Dinner;
Busy Athletic Slate Marks Weekend
Touring Women's Group
Performs In Seven States
The 42 voice Women's Choir, one
of Bethel's three traditional vocal
groups, is currently engaged in a
13 day tour of the Midwest. The
group conducted by Oliver Mogck,
left the college campus on Janu-ary
26 to travel in 7 states from
Pennsylvania to Minnesota. During
the two week period, the choir
plans to present its concert a total
of 17 times.
Works performed by the choir
include numbers by such famous
composers as J. S. Bach, Beethoven,
Hassler, and Mascagni. Mere con-temporary
musicians such as Noble
Cain, David Johnson and L. Stan-ley
Clarum are also being featured.
This season's major work of the
choir will be Beethoven's "Halle-lujah
Chorus" from his oratorio,
"The Mount of Olives." The con-cert
repertoire includes other great
spiritual classics, hymn arrange-ments,
and spirituals.
Assistant conductor this year is
Cheryl Henry, who hails from Cres-ton,
Iowa. At the keyboard in an
accompanying capacity will be
Norene Shephard from Crystal,
North Dakota. Also serving in a
similar capacity will be Janice
Fjeldeim, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Representing college interests to
the listening audiences, Miss Cath-erine
Williams, Dean of Women, is
travelling with the choir as a fac-ulty
advisor.
An on tour report from Sue
Howard indicated that highlights
of the tour were a tour of the
Ford Plant in Dearborn, Michi-gan,
a visit to the Radio Bible
Class in Grand Rapids, and a
TV appearance in Erie, Pennsyl-vania
which was followed by a
tour of the city's port facilities
and historic sights.
The tour ended in Red Wing
on Tuesday night, when the girls
zeroed in on the campus for a
return to studies and the cold.
Male Chorus Tours South
Presenting Sacred Music
by C. David Snyder
While Bethel College students
are returning from all parts of
the country to resume second sem-ester
classes in sub-zero tempera-tures,
38 of her members, the
Bethel Male Chorus, are privileged
to enjoy the warmth and comfort
of the climate of the deep south.
Every year each of the choral
groups presents a season of sacred
concerts in a particular section of
the country. It is presently the
honor of the Chorus to "invade"
a part of the country little-touched
by the Bethel influence.
After their departure by char-tered
Greyhound from the Col-lege
parking lot on Thursday of
finals week, the men have made
their way, step by step, to the
deep south, where, as of this
writing, they are about to pre-sent
a concert at their southern-most
point, Miami, Florida.
A matter of concern to any
director is a large turnover in per-sonnel
from one year to the next,
Such was the case with Male Chor-us
director, C. Howard Smith.
With only a dozen veterans return-ing
from the group which toured
Europe for six weeks during the
summer of '65, Mr. Smith was
faced with an obvious task of re-building.
After long and exhausting hard
work, disappointment, and succes-ses,
the Chorus is now experienc-ing
a strong feeling of oneness —
oneness in musical sound, in per-sonality,
and in Christian love.
Accompanying the Chorus a-gain
is junior, Dennis Rockford.
Also providing instrumental var-iety
are trombonists Ken Smith,
Cal Parent, and Dean Finnestad,
along with trumpeters Dave Sim-mons,
Rich Swanson, Tom Blom-strand,
and Bruce Dischinger.
Soloing is Dan Wickman, Presi-dent
of the group.
Traveling with the group again
is Head of the Department of His-tory,
Dr. Roy Dalton. But Doc is
more than this to the fellows of the
Chorus. To us he is our mascot,
our seamstress, our constant object
of practical joking, our Christian
friend and helper.
The repertoire presented by the
Chorus this year is one of "new
joy" found in serving Jesus Christ.
It is one of acknowledging that
the Lord is King; that He alone
is the controller of our lives, and
of the world.
Cry out, and shout!
Ye people of God!
The Lord is strength
and song.
Therefore shall ye draw waters
from the wells of salvation:
Cry out and shout!
Ye people of God!
Make a joyful sound unto the
Lord, all ye lands!
And serve the Lord with
gladness . . .
It is He that hath made us,
and not we ourselves;
For we are His people, and
the sheep of His pasture.
Make a joyful sound,
make a joyful sound!
These are the words of two
numbers which mean much to the
men of the Chorus. Although per-forming
the same concert night
after night, there are variances
within the churches and within
the men, which create a new at-mosphere
in each setting.
Few problems have been en-countered
during the tour thus
far, with the exception of dif-ficulty
in getting through t h e
Chicago area on the way south.
The concert scheduled for Mt.
Prospect on Friday night was
forcibly canceled by the heavy
snowfall and blizzard conditions.
Refuge and housing was pro-vided
for the entire group by
Temple Baptist, the Conference
Church in Rockford, with only
a few hours notice.
The Chorus hopes to arrive in
St. Paul at 2:30 a.m., next Monday,
providing no further complications
present themselves. They will give
their homecoming concert at Beth-lehem
Baptist in Minneapolis on
Feb. 19.
ATTENTION
Due to the limited seat-ing
capacity of the Bethel
Fieldhouse the Norman
Luboff Concert has been
moved to the Norton
Fieldhouse at Hamline
University. The concert
will be held at the same
time, 8:00 P.M. on March
10th. Group transporta-tion
will be provided for
on-campus ticket holders
who have no private cars.
Refunds for cancellations
will be available at the
ticket windows during
Founders Week.
Sno-daze, highlight of Bethel's
winter social calendar will com-mence
on Friday night, February
17 at 7:45. The scene will be the
now famous Minneapolis restau-rant,
the Camelot. This restaurant
is well known for its exquisite Old .
English decor, carried through by
a motif drawn from the legends
of King Arthur and his Knights.
The Camelot will host the cor-onation
of the Sno-Daze queen
and her court. Dress for the oc-casion
will be formal for women,
suits and ties for men.
Chicken in burgundy, french,
pastries will be highlights of the
menu. Vocal and instrumental din-ner
music has been planned.
Sno-Daze activities for Saturday
include three athletic events, din-ner,
and an aftergame social. The
Bethel Royals will face the River
Falls puckmen in a duel at Wakota
arena. Busses have been secured
for those needing a ride. This 4:30
event will be followed at 6:30 by
a wretling meet asgainst Morris
and a basketball game against the
same school.
The halftime show for t h e
game will include an appearance
by the queen and her court for
her official introduction to the
students. Her majesty will pre-side
over and knight the winner
of the beard growing contest.
The basketball game will be fol-lowed
by a light hour of refresh-ment
in an atmosphere of candle
light and folk music in Room 106.
Earlier in the day, the winners
of the snow sculpture contest
will receive a trophy which it
is hoped will begin a precedent
for future Sno-Daze.
The Saturday evening dinner will
follow the theme of the Old Eug-lish
motif. This occasion will be
semi-formal.
Page 2
the CLARION Thursday, February 9, 1967
intersession' Essential To
Bethel Calendar Reform
The European influence on American college calendars
is becoming more and more pronounced every year. Prime
feature of this influence has been the "intersession", variously
known as the minisemester, reading interlude, and inter-semester.
This one month unit which falls between the second and
third quarters of the school year is tailored to encourage
student initiative in broadening their interests. It provides
an opportunity for students to take courses they would not
ordinarily have taken. (Grades are banished from this ses-sion;
students are usually given a pass fail mark which is
not included in the transcript)
Students generally select one course which meets three
times weekly, allowing for a maximum time for outside
reading.
Often, such programs include field trips of various kinds.
In the latest intersession at MacAlester, students went as far
away as Europe to study Rennaissance art, to the Harlem
slums to work with the Protestant Parish, to work with a
congressman in Washington, to Florida for a study of marine
biology, to Mexico for Spanish, as well as to a host of other
places. Such a program at Bethel would provide:
1) a break from the dull prospect of a semester's work
clouded by dour skies in the dead of winter.
2) an opportunity for students to broaden their academic
interests; to explore fields of study they would not normally
have pursued.
3) a solution to the long standing feud over the departure
of touring groups during academic sessions.
4) an opening for professors to teach courses in which they
have a special interest; to plan courses of integrated studies
(see last issue's editorial).
5) an opportunity to study courses not framed within the
college curriculum.
6) a chance to prepare for work anticipated in the coming
quarter.
7) an opportunity for both teachers and students to assess
academic progress made by the individual students (grades
,would be distributed after each quarter).
8) a nautural break for Christmas vacation long the
haunting spectre of the semester calendar.
Such a program is naturally based upon the integrity of
the individual students, and as such it is vulnerable to abuse.
But the benefit it would afford the serious students would far
outweigh its abue at the hands of the pseudo-students.
In accord with the plans for the "new look" Bethel will
have on the Arden Hills campus, it is time we began to recog-nise
some of the new and exciting innovations in college cal-endars.
ChapelChanges
For This Month
The following changes have
been made in the February
Chapel schedule:
Feb. 9. — Thurs. convocation
featuring Donn Od-ell,
previously sche-duled
for Jan. 17th.
Feb 15.— Wednesday — D r .
William Hulme, pro-fessor
at Luther
Seminary on "Sex
and the Christian."
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel collage
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Editor-in-chief Jonathan P. Larson
Sports Editor Lynn Bergfalk
Layout Editor Jane Bergeson
Photography Curt Courtney
Business Manager John Tegenfeldt
Advisor Wallace Nelson
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LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
Aches,
Letters to the Editor:
Dean's Note Disappoints, Insults, Shocks
by Leonard Sammons
Chicago
Record snow is proving too much
for antiquated Chicago snow re-moval
crews. The forced abandon-ment
of cars has led to abundant
vandalism forcing police arrests.
It is to be hoped that the police
informed the alleged vandals of
their constitutional rights so that
if they are convicted they can pay
their fines and/or go to t h e
klink. It is still doubtful that Sno-
Daze will he moved to the Windy
Ci ty.
California
While cold, wet snow falls on
Chicago, students at the Univer-sity
of California's nine campus-es
are still fuming over the dis-missal
of Dr. Clark Kerr as Uni-versity
president. The dismissal
they feel was caused by personal
and political differences between
Kerr and the new, ultraconser-vative
governor Ronald Reagan
of Hollywood.
Even the campus Communists
who were once opponents of Kerr
have given him their support, but
it is the old story of too little
and too late.
Washington and Phoenix
It has been hinted that Secretary
of the Interior Udall is considering
running for the United States Sen-ate
from Arizona in 1968. The seat
is presently held by the nonogen-erian
President pro tempore of the
Senate, Carl Hayden, whose office
announced some time back that he
would seek an eighth term.
Also anticipating candidacy is
a former clerk of Goldwater's
store in Phoenix, who presently
is a ham radio operator, a man
who ought to be a recording star
and sing "I Left MY Votes in
San Francisco."
Washington and Saigon
When former-clerk Barry Gold-water
was runing for President un-der
the Republican label, he said
he could do away with the draft.
Well, he lost, and the draft lingers,
partially because of fighting in
Viet Nam.
While the war continued, the
President, Landslides Lyndon John-son,
said he knew of no serious at-tempt
of Hanoi to negotiate a set-tlement.
And Goldwater, who want-ted
to abolish the draft, is taking a
much more hawk (I think he con-fuses
it with an eagle)-like ap-proach
than Johnson.
Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek is reportedly
more optimistic of the chances
of reconquering the Chinese
mainland since internal conflict
began in the Red-controlled
mainland. However, he has an
army of less than a million which
is hardly enough to invade a ter-ritory
which contains 700 mil-lion
people.
Louisville, Bimini, and Washington
Cassius Clay, alias Muhammed
Ali, while preparing to challenge
Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight
boxing title, spent time arguing to
his draft board that he is a Black
Muslim minister and only a boxer
part-time.
A fellow clergy man who actu-ally
has a church, but spends most
To the Editor,
The loss of respect for those in
authority is regretable. We are
deeply disappointed to find that
such is the case at Bethel in view
of the recent letter addressed to
off campus students by the Deans'
Office. May wt quote the Bethel
College Catalogue 1966-67, p. 34
and p. 8?
"The spirit of the school is to
work with a minimum of rules and
thus avoid a legalistic approach to
Christian living."
"The college attempts to provide
an intellectual, social, and spiritual
community in which individuals
can grow and learn in a variety of
situations, are encouraged to as-sume
responsibility intelligently,
and may develop a discriminating
awareness of and concern for
Christian motives."
We believe that the majority of
Bethel students (especially those
who have assumed the responsi-bility
of off campus living) are
capable of living up to the highest
expectations of the school. In the
dorms there are lounges. Off cam-pus
there is now nothing but —
cars?
We agree that it is not advisable
to entertain one of the opposite
sex in "the more intimate and pri-vate
atmosphere of one's personal
living quarters," However, may we
not compare our living rooms to
the dorm lounges?
May we remind you that a get
together in the supposedly "inti-mate
and private atmosphere" of
one's living room may be the oc-casion
for group Bible studies and
discussions rather than "an event
to be interpreted in the worst pos-sible
light." The lack of trust in
the imposition of petty rules is an
insult to our Christian principles.
May we sigh ourselves,
Bethel Students
of his time far away from it, Adam
Clayton Powell, has recorded an
album entitled "Keep The Faith,
Baby." His House colleagues, how-.
ever, have still not seated him.
To the Editor:
I write in reply to the letter
from the Dean's office issued to
off-campus residents just prior to
final week.
As to the scriptural quote of
"abstain from all apearance of
evil," I would also like to quote,
"Unto the pure all things are
pure." My university neighbors do
not think twice when a person of
the opposite sex walks into my
apartment nor do I think anything
of them in a similar situation. To
those Bethel personnel who think
otherwise, I suggest that their
minds need cleaning up.
Furthermore, it seems to me
that my apartment is my home
and I am not going to be so ab-normal
or outright rude as to
ask my date to wait in the hall.
Nor do I feel that my hospitality
of extending a dinner invitation to
the opposite sex need be condi-tioned
by "notifying the Dean" or
a note from my mother! Must I
then also consult Mrs. Johnson,
dietitian, as to what I should
serve?
As for "lighting a fuse," I am
sure a lot more are conveyed with-in
cars rather than apartments.
And I am not speaking about jump-er
cables!
May I finally add that I was
thoroughly insulted by a letter
of this nature. My relationships
with other people, including the
opposite sex, are built on trust
and respectability and I hope
that this is a reciprocal stan-dard.
And in reply to the idea that "no
student should engage in any type
of behavior which would seem to
require explanation," I would like
to say that I expect to spend the
rest of my life giving explanations
for my actions, for if I have no
reasons for what I do then I am
among Bethelites most miserable.
It seems to me that in the final
analysis someone has been talking
to Bob Jones . . . but I think they
got a wrong number!
Insulted Student
P.S. "Boys and girls" seem to be
rather immature terms for the type
of actions to which this letter re-fers.
Dear Editor:
I was shocked and disappointed
when I learned of the clarification
of Bethel's position regarding
males in apartments. I protest on
three counts.
1. This position serves to assert.
that Bethel men and women are
incapable of living according to
their own consciences. It seems to
imply that in order for a Christian
to maintain his morality, he must
be supplied with an alter ego. In
this case that alter ego is a system
which establishes an all inclusive
rule.
2. All of us have been discour-aged
at the number of marriage
failures that occur in our so-ciety.
Sociologists attribute part
of this to role discontinuity. The
dating pattern which this rule
necessitates does nothing to al-leviate
this problem.
A couple that is courting should
have every possible opportunity to
try on marriage roles. (I am not
advocating sexual license. A man
should see his girl making supper.
He should eat her food and he
should be able to see her with her
hands in the dish water—and it
would certainly do no harm for her
to see how he looked with a towel
in his hands.
There is certainly no time like
courtship to find out that Joe is
impecable and dogmatic about the
appearance of the house. During
courtship these problems can be
dealt with gradually and with re-latively
little tension. The result
is removing them as problems to
be handled during the first few
months of marriage.
The more experiences a court.
ing couple has together, the
more chances of success their
marriage has. By making this
rule Bethel has greatly reduced
the number of preparatory ex-periences
a couple can have.
3. If a couple wants to neck, etc.
—they will do it with or without
the rule. Is a parked car so much
superior to an apartment?
Marie Weigum
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the collage
or seminary.
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The Placement Office of the
Student Services has announced
that a number of interviewers will
be on campus for those who are
looking for employment and fur-ther
training.
The Pleasant Valley School Dis-trict
of Camarillo, California, will
be sending a representative to
Bethel on February 9 for any in-terested
senior education majors.
Inquiries will be entertained be-tween
1:00 and 4:30 P.M. in Mrs.
Hardle's Office.
A letter from the District Super-intendent
indicates that there will
be vacancies for 18-20 elementary
teachers in that school district.
The letter notes that three Bethel
alumni are successfully working
on their first teaching assignments
in this area; they are Andrea
Richardson, Janet Skur, and Bob
Peterson.
Also on February 9, Thursday,
Air Firce recruiters will be in
Dear Mr. Editor,
I'm sure that you noticed it as
well as 1 did. Wasn't it interesting
how a noticeably coherent atmo-sphere
pervaded the campus last
week during finals. Wasn't it great
to notice that common bond of
testing and trial which united the
campus.
Everyone was "booking it" for
all they were worth, and they
knew that they were not alone in
their concern. The whole campus
was one big study hall. Every cor-ner
found students attempting to
absorb as much as they could in
as short a time as possible.
Friends were seen in the
strangest places — like the li-brary.
Rooms were shared with
perfect strangers who, like us,
were looking for that "quiet
place to study." It seemed that
everyone really did care when
they would ask, "Well, how's it
going?"
We rejoiced with those w h o
found that they had learned the
"right" things, and we had a real
sympathy for those who had been
weighed in the balances and found
wanting. After all — we knew just
how they felt.
Perhaps this experience has
caused you to have the same
thoughts I had. Wouldn't it be
great if we were concerned for
each other's spiritual examina-tions?
Wouldn't it be great if we
could find those who were con-cerned
enough about us to ask,
"How is it going with your prayer
life?" or "Have you discovered new
and exciting insights into the
Christian life this past week?"
It probably sounds "out of it"
to ask a friend how his spiritual
tests are going, but after all,
isn't that more important than
Chemistry and History and So-cial
Problems etc? Of course, we
aren't all tested "spiritually at
the same time — or are we?
Maybe each day is like a test
for every human — a test to see
what are our concerns and where
are our efforts. Any way, it seems
that Christians should receive spe-cial
motivation to be concerned
for others from God's Holy Word.
Maybe we've been using our
"shield of faith" to hide behind.
Isn't that shield part of a set of
armor designed to offensively meet
the temptation of the anti-God.
Yet we're using it to protect our-selves
and excuse ourselves from
Thursday, February 9, 1967
confronting our fellow Christians
in an honest way.
Man's spiritual condition in-volves
a relationship between the
man and God alone, we say. But
the same idea holds true in our
educational efforts. That test grade
comes from a student-teacher corn-munication
and help from other
sources invalidates the grade it-self.
We didn't waste time telling
our friends what to study for
their finals. The ACTIONS we
Rev. Dan Baumann, Instructor in
Pastoral Ministries at Bethel Sem-inary
is conducting a tour of Eu-rope
this summer. The tour, "Pro-testant
Highlights of Europe", has
scheduled a 3 week route through
England, Germany, Switzerland,
Italy, and France.
Areas of special interest will be
exploration of places prominent in
the life of Luther, archeological
remnants left by the early Chris-tians
in Rome, as well as frequent
visits to places of Protestant wor-ship
on the Continent.
Scenic beauty along the way will
include a boat cruise up the Rhine
river, extensive travelling in the
Alps, particularly in Switzerland,
as well as Paris, the "City of
Lights".
The tour is being sponsored by
Gotaas World Travel, with head
offices in Chicago. Rev. Baumann's
trip is the second such tour in a
series of two slated for the sum-mer
months. July 11 to August 1
are the current dates
A unique aspect of the tour
is the extensive time given to
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did take were those of concern
and a desire to share our com-mon
interests.
Couldn't we transfer those ac-tions
to the essential realm of
spiritual efforts? Let's ask a fel-low
Christian today how much
trouble he's having with Bible read-in
or let's tell a friend how we
can't understand how our prayers
do anybody any good. That might
be a very basic part of our "rea-sonable
service."
those who wish to do some solo
ventures.
The price tag for the tour
which includes round trip air fare,
full hotel accommodations, most
meals, full sighseeing program,
English speaking guides, and other
extras, has been set at $799.00.
Students wishing more informa-tion
on this are invited to contact
Dan Baumann at the Seminary.
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The editorial board of the 'CO- •
EVAL' announces that it will be
offering two prizes of $25.00 each
in the categories of writing and
art, for contributions (poetry,
prose, short drama, etc.) may be
submitted to Dave Shupe, Norma
Wiese, Jon P. Larson, Esther Pear-son,
Mr. Rolland Hein, or Nan-cy
Applequist, by March 15. Art-work
will be photographed for
entry on or about the same date;
notify Nancy Applequist (P.O.
1075) if you intend to submit art-work.
All entries in either category
will be considered for the prizes.
Faculty in the departments of Eng-lish
and Art will judge the entries.
Our thanks to the many who have
already contributed; please con-tinue
to do so.
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Philosopher Chuckles At
All Computer Dreamland
by Dr. Roy Butler
Ed. note—Dr. Butler is the Chairman of the Philosophy Department
at Bethel College.
Computer replacement of college professors is a well-worn conver-sation
piece, but the question of student replacement is more interest-ing.
I suppose every professor, periodically leafing his notes on a
well-turned pun, which falls stillborn from his lips, momentarily
anticipates the golden age of student computers. Well adjusted com-puters
have a satisfying way of digesting last week's notes and re-sponding
appropriately.
From one perspective, the college population explosion perspective,
computer student replacement is idle dreaming. But from another, the
neat processing of facts and figures "man the machine view" of
learning, computer replacement of students is an updated "1984," a
predictable emergence.
Computers are ideal memorizers; what goes in one week as raw
data comes out as pun equivalents and functionally valid equations
the next. And what the heights of pedagogical success for the college
professor and a class of well adjusted computers! He might well rule
the world in one cool semester, and withall scorn the thought of
professor replacement — computers must ever be instructed.
Perhaps what brings the professor and his pun back to reality,
however, is the dubious motivational worth of computer response,
perfect though it be, to further punning. To chuckle alone, year after
year, among "blooded" students is, psychologically at least, more ad-missible
than chuckling with a class of well computed chuckles.
Probably it is on this note that the dream of student computers
erodes away entirely. Students somehow enequivocally are less than
mathematically ordered things — and infinitely more. It is the "in-finitely
more" which the professor, having confessed his pun episode
to his "significant other" (his wife), recognizes as somehow the essence
of knowledge-giving and getting. Man the chuckler (homo ludens) alone,
candidate for the B.A., constitutes a challenge to man the professor.
The arts of chuckling and guffawing have been exposed from
numerous viewpoints. The master of the incongrous, the double-levelled
creature is infinitely more than the machine; he is an evalu-ator.
It is the "blooded" student's capacity to engage the world of
gods and men and things with his full quiver of value judgments —
goods-bads, beauties-uglier, holies-sinfuls — that is the student's ir-replaceable
commodity.
He has been made a "little lower than the angels" and learning
and knowing are weighted toward goals. (Man, the learner and laugher,
has his feet on earth and his head in the clouds.) Knowledge is for
worship (worthship) and man, the student, stands, as image-bearer of
the infinite, infinitely above the world of computers. Only at well-marked
times of testing puns does man, the professor, question man,
the student.
Opportunities To Knock
Says Placement Office
the Coffee Shoppe lounge from
9:30 A.M. to 3:00 P.M.
The Moser Secretarial School
will send an interviewer to the
campus on Wednesday, March 1
who will be available for inter-views
at 1:00 P.M. in the Student
Services office.
The Moser School caters to wo-men
anticipating careers in busi-ness.
Applicants for admission
must have either two years of lib-eral'
arts, or 60 credit hours as a
prerequisite for admission.
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Letter to the Editor:
Spiritual Life Needs Genuine Interest
Protestant Highlights Of Europe
To Be Subject Of Baumann Tour
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Bethel's freshmen dominated
wrestling team took it on the chin
five more times over semester
break, bowing to Concordia, Mor-ris,
Pillsbury, and twice to North-land.
Bright spot for the Royals was
frosh grappler Bob Olsen. The 167
pound product of Davenport, Iowa.
continued his fine wrestling with
a perfect 5-0 semester break re-cord,
running his season record
to an unblemished 13-0.
Injuries have plagued the mat-men
all season, and have side-lined
key veterans. Presently the
team is without a single return-ing
letterman. The grapplers
have consequently been forced
to use inexperienced men and
usually have been unable to field
a full team.
Concordia, Morris, and Pillsbury
easily took the measure of the
shorthanded wrestlers, but the
young Royals twice gave Northland
a tough battle before suffering
identical 23-18 setbacks.
In their first encounter Bethel
opened up an 8-0 lead on a deci-sion
by Dan Versaw and Steve
Anderson's pin. A flurry of North-land
victories pulled the visitors
ahead 18-8 before Olsen put the
Royals back on the winning track
by pinning his opponent.
Bethel evened the score at 18
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all when John Griffith's antagon- at Northland, three Bethel forfiets
ist was disqualified for using an spotted the Lumberjacks 15 points
illegal hold four times. Bethel's
before the first grappler stepped
forfiet at heavyweight, however, on the mat. The Royals 18-8 edge
gave Northland their 23-18 vic. i n actual competition wasn't
tory. enough to overcome that early de-
In a return match a week later ficit.
Bethel's grapplers faced a rough and tumble season. John Grif-fiths
is pressured by an unidentified Northland wrestler.
Faculty(Ahem0A11-Stars
Favored Over Magics
An exhibition of comedy basket- arenas and stadiums throughout
ball featuring the world-famous the nation. Jan. 15 they appeared
Fabulous Magicians led by drib- on the wide-world of sports, show-bling
artist Marques Haynes will ing off their ability to shoot from
meet a Bethel College Faculty the hip, fire from any spot on
All-Star team Saturday (Feb. 11) the floor, and handle the ball like
evening at 8 o'clock in the Bethel a knife and fork.
fieldhouse, W. Nebraska at As- The Magicians have pleased aud-bury
in St. Paul. iences in 47 states and on three
The Magicians, under the fan- continents. Competent observers
tastic hand of owner Marques believe that the Haynes owned Ma-
Haynes, considered by most com- gicians can probably move the ball
petent observers to be the finest into scoring position with more
dribbler and ball handler in the skill and deft maneuvering than
history of professional basketball, any team in the roundball world.
will pack 40 minutes of consum- Bethel Athletic director Gene
mate court skill into a comedy Glader, who along with football
and crowd-pleasing routine against coach Maurice Shields, basket-the
All-Stars to demonstrate bas- ball coach Mack Nettleton, and
ketball at its entertaining best. other faculty members will play
T h e Magicians feature such
for the All-Stars, said, "We an-stars
as Sugarfoot Johnson, Mu. ticipate a great evening. We're
sic Scott, Walt Cummins, Jimmy using the best of our faculty and
Roberts, Ish Baker, Paul Martin, staff."
Tommy Gipson, and others. General admission for this event
Strictly amazing, the Magicians is $1.25 in advance and student
with over 3,00 victories against prices are 75 ,0. At the gate prices
only nine losses, play in the major are $1.50 and $1 respectively.
by Lynn Bergfalk
Losing seasons are never pleasant. When the teams have
the potential to make a much better showing, losing is even
more distasteful. Why? becomes a disturbing question. Such
a question has no simple answer; a multitude of factors are
involved. And out of these many factors, one thing in par-ticular
emerges as a basic need to athletic success — mem-bership
status in an athletic conference.
Participation in a conference yields many benefits and
abieviates numerous headaches. To begin with, athletic con-tests
would receive more publicity through the normal news
media. The benefits from this increased publicity are hardly
limited to the scope of athletics alone.
Furthermore, conference membership spawns two forces
vital to formation of a winning team. The first concerns
personnel. Recruiting becomes more effective resulting in
more good athletes.
The increased publicity mentioned previously, and the
opportunity for the prospective athlete to participate in con-ference
competition are two attractions that Bethel, as an in-dependent
(the only one in Minnesota this year), can not
offer in the way of recruiting inducements.
A second factor instrumental to success is the motiva-tional
force initiated by conference membership. Especially
when a team is high in the conference standings, desire for
championship laurels will spark them to top-notch efforts in
every game. In a season like the one the Royals are now
experiencing, motivation would still be important for a con-ference
team in attempting to evade the cellar and save face.
A list of advantages could run on forever. Attendance
would rise, particularly if Bethel joined a conference that
featured natural rivals like Hamline, Macalester, or other
schools in the Twin City area. Travel expenses and time
would be greatly reduced as excursions to neighboring states
were replaced by conference games. Furthermore, confer-ence
games would do more for the annual scheduling head-ache
than Excedrin.
Still a conference entails more than the above advantages.
In final analysis, such an organization is ultimately essential
in enabling athletics to make their most meaningful contri-bution
to the liberal arts experience.
Steps are being taken by the athletic department towards
assimilation by an existing conference. Let us hope that for-mal
application is made before losing seasons become a tradi-tion.
A losing tradition has little appeal to fans, athletes, and
future prospects. It would also draw little publicity — none
of it favorable.
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